The Office of the Auditor General and the Arizona Department of Education have issued the Annual Financial Report (AFR) file packages for fiscal year 2017 for districts and charters. The County 2017 AFR is also available. The files may be downloaded by clicking the appropriate link below

The Fiscal Year 2017 Statewide Equalization Recalculation has been completed.

District
The positive adjustments have been included in the September 1st payment through the APOR64-1 report. Positive adjustments will be included as lump sum adjustments; whereas the negative adjustments will be taken over the entire fiscal year, 3/12ths taken in October and 1/12th each payment thereafter.

Charter
The positive adjustments have been included in the September 1st payment through the CHAR64-1 report as a lump sum adjustment. The negative adjustments will be taken over the entire fiscal year, 3/12ths taken in October and 1/12th each payment thereafter.

With the hardship application, a minimum of 75% must be adjusted in FY18 and 25% will be adjusted in FY19. Adjustments will begin with the October 1 payment. Please include all questions regarding these adjustments in your e-mail, with the completed form attached. Exceptions for severe scenarios may be made.

School Finance has finished the calculation of the FY 2018 Results-Based Funding, pursuant to A.R.S. 15-249.08. School Finance will distribute the monies to School Districts or Charter Districts for their eligible schools, based on the statutory formula, with the first distribution scheduled for September, 2017. The FY 2018 Results-Based Funding allocation file is located here.

Please refer to School Finance Memo 18-012, published on August 11, 2017, for the important details regarding Results-Based Funding eligibility, and accounting and expenditure reporting requirements.

In an effort to provide the most effective customer service, please direct all Results-Based Funding questions in an email to the School Finance payments team inbox at [email protected]. If the email will concern the first payment of Results-Based Funding, that email is due to the School Finance payments team inbox by August 28, 2017, in order to allow School Finance staff sufficient time to respond prior to the first distribution of funding in September, 2017.

In School Finance, your Account Analysts are committed to helping LEAs improve data quality and payment accuracy. Starting in June 2017 the School Finance Account Analysts began working as a team to resolve incoming communications in order to improve response time and transparency.

The 915 process for FY 2017 requires administrative tools which are currently under development by the AzEDS Team. School Finance anticipates being able to open a 915 window during the second quarter of FY 2017.

Any 915 request for FY 2017 received will be placed on hold until the needed tools are complete. Requests for FY 2016 or FY 2015 915s can be processed after the statewide recalculation for FY 2017 is complete.